This Body, This Life, by Jozef Dumoulin

This Body, This Life

by Jozef Dumoulin

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	1.	Ear Of The Ear 02:27
	2.	Kindred Touch 02:56
	3.	Social Disdance 07:00
	4.	La Vie En Rhodes 04:17
	5.	Regular Encounters 04:48
	6.	Eighteen Chords For An Angel 03:03
	7.	Altijd Koko Ziek 00:47
	8.	To Mommy From Cory 03:27
	9.	Lonely Tree On Rocks 06:48
	10.	Paco Et Le Noise 01:31
	11.	Seed Syllables 04:08
	12.	Speciale Pasta 02:57
	13.	Eye Of The Eye 01:07
	14.	Everything To Look Forward To 03:59

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‘This Body, This Life’ is Jozef Dumoulin’s second solo work. The first, ’A Fender Rhodes Solo’, came out in 2014 and achieved cult status rapidly after its release. But whereas the latter was the product of a restrictive exercise (no overdubs and only one single keyboard allowed, namely the vintage Fender Rhodes), ‘This Body This Life’ offers an explosion of different timbres and sonorities. We hear not only the Fender Rhodes, but also piano, synthesizers, electronic beats, voices, guitar and a lot of field recordings. Jozef explains:

“A couple of years ago a producer and label-owner proposed to me to make an album where I would mix piano and Fender Rhodes. At the time I was thinking of recording a second Fender Rhodes solo and was reluctant to the idea of adding the piano to the equation. I feared it would drastically change the focus, pulling the Fender Rhodes back to that uninteresting position of ‘electric piano’. However, I liked the idea of making a record as an answer to a challenge, so I accepted to play the game.”

Very soon after I started the first sketches the producer pulled out due to artistic differences; I guess he had some genuinely nice and soothing music in mind that I wasn’t ready to deliver. Still, by then I was too hooked up to the enterprise to just leave it so I decided to move forward on my own.

My method has been as simple as it has been time consuming: I recorded a lot of Fender Rhodes improvisations and a bunch of piano improvisations. I made pre-selections for both recordings and then took the time to see what piano would fit what Fender Rhodes. Once I established a certain number of compatible pairs, I considered that everything was allowed to make them into self-sufficient, working pieces of music. After all, I had to reunite water and fire; or at least that was the feeling I got.”

The result is a collection of 14 highly original pieces of music, designed like a palace full of magic doors and gates, enabling a limitless journey through time and space, or - if you will - into the depths of oneself.

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released May 26, 2023

Jozef Dumoulin: piano, Fender Rhodes, synths, guitar, voice, programming, field recordings
Ayaan Dumoulin: voice and keyboards on ‘Altijd Koko Ziek’

All tracks composed by Jozef Dumoulin, except ‘Altijd Koko Ziek’: composed by Ayaan Dumoulin and Jozef Dumoulin

Recorded by Jozef Dumoulin, except:
grand piano recorded by Gérard de Haro at studio La Buissonne, and additional Fender Rhodes recorded by Arthur Gouret at studio Sextan

Mixed by Ludwig Wandinger at Sonnenstudio
Mastered by Frederik Dejongh at Jerboa Mastering

Cover drawing: Ayaan Dumoulin

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